In Film
Sylva's earliest venture into cinema was probably the title role in a 1913 silent film of Carmen shot in Nîmes, France with M. Habay (an actor with the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt) as Don José. Her first major role in a Hollywood film came in 1920 when she played Hilda Wilson in The Honey Bee directed by Rupert Julian. Her other film roles included:
- Countess Marlik in They Dare Not Love (1941), directed by James Whale
- Marta in The Leopard Man (1943) directed by Jacques Tourneur
- Mrs. Bella Romari in The Seventh Victim (1943) directed by Mark Robson
- Older Woman in The Conspirators (1944) directed by Jean Negulesco
- Cashier in To Have and Have Not (1944) directed by Howard Hawks
- Doña Maria Sandoval in Gay Senorita (1945) directed by Arthur Dreifuss
- Diplomat's Wife in Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) directed by Richard Thorpe
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